The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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Page 18
... mind that you treat him as well as you're able , And let him have part of what goes from the table . " ( 7 ) A soft , smiling voice then arose on the ear , As if some one from court was about to appear : " O , this is the room , my good 18.
... mind that you treat him as well as you're able , And let him have part of what goes from the table . " ( 7 ) A soft , smiling voice then arose on the ear , As if some one from court was about to appear : " O , this is the room , my good 18.
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... court of aldermen hawing and humming , Or Abbot , at least , with his ushers before , But ' twas only Bob Southey and two or three more . ( 14 ) As soon as he saw him , Apollo seem'd pleas'd ; ( 15 ) But as he had settled it not to be ...
... court of aldermen hawing and humming , Or Abbot , at least , with his ushers before , But ' twas only Bob Southey and two or three more . ( 14 ) As soon as he saw him , Apollo seem'd pleas'd ; ( 15 ) But as he had settled it not to be ...
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... court of Charles the Second . It would have appeared a great piece of insolence to this flimsy personage , who , in a posthumous edition of his works , is recommended to the care of " Time , Truth , and Posterity , " to be told , that ...
... court of Charles the Second . It would have appeared a great piece of insolence to this flimsy personage , who , in a posthumous edition of his works , is recommended to the care of " Time , Truth , and Posterity , " to be told , that ...
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... court . I may here , by the way , take notice of a strange piece of carelesness which has escaped Mr. Wal- ter Scott in his edition of Dryden , and which , unless he had made eighteen volumes of it , might be construed into an ignorance ...
... court . I may here , by the way , take notice of a strange piece of carelesness which has escaped Mr. Wal- ter Scott in his edition of Dryden , and which , unless he had made eighteen volumes of it , might be construed into an ignorance ...
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... court from a monastery . There is a good edition of it , and , I believe , not a scarce one , by Francis Wise , who was Fellow of Trinity College , Oxford , and Assistant Librarian of the Bodleian . * The one I have is an octavo ...
... court from a monastery . There is a good edition of it , and , I believe , not a scarce one , by Francis Wise , who was Fellow of Trinity College , Oxford , and Assistant Librarian of the Bodleian . * The one I have is an octavo ...
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Abydos admiration affected Apollo appears bard beautiful better bow'd bright called character Coleridge court court of aldermen cried criticism delight Dryden elegant Eloisa to Abelard ev'ry eyes Fairfax fancy faults Feast feeling flow'r forget friends genius Giaour give graceful harmony Hayley heart idle imitation Italian Jump-up-and-kiss-me Juvenal keep king Laureat least less lines look look'd Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads mind Montepulciano Muse narch never o'er original passion perhaps persons piece Pindar poem poet Poet Laureat poetical poetry politics poor Pope praise prince PYRRHA reader respect rhyme ribaldry round satire Scott seem'd seems sense Shakspeare simplicity singular Sirmio smiles society song soul Southey sparkling speak species spect Spenser spirit style Tasso taste thee thing thou thought tion true turn turn'd twas only Bob verses versification vex'd vulgar Walter Scott wine words Wordsworth writings written